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InDesignSecrets Podcast 151 Jun 16, 2011

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PePCon 2011 recap: It was great! Let's do it again! ;-D
Marijan's new Acrobat script (lets you create form fields in InDesign)
Our Uservoice web site for InDesign feature requests
Interview with Douglas Waterfall, InDesign senior software engineer
Quizzler winner! (and answer)
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Load Selected Glyph

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 20% off their StoryParker 2.0 ($29) plug-in, a neat utility that helps you deal with cluttered pages by letting you "park" any object elsewhere (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way temporarily, and then "unpark" it later. To get the 20% discount, use the promo code INDESIGNSECRETS151 when you purchase it. >> In-Tools has a number of fantastically useful InDesign plug-ins, all of which were recently updated to work with CS5.5. Harbs (the owner) has also written a bunch of InDesign scripts that are supremely useful. Be sure to visit the In-Tools page and download what looks useful. >>UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2011 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. – Quizzler winning answer: How many ways can you "hide" InDesign, from the keyboard? Pat, a Mac user, says ...

You mentioned the first way - Quit.
Option-click on the desktop will hide InDesign and you leave the program but not quit it.
Force Quit - Option+Command+esc
Command+H - will hide InDesign. Which surprised me the first time it happened because Command+H used to Hide Frame Edges.
Menu Bar> InDesign> Hide InDesign (does that one count because it's basically the same as #4)
Use the dock to hide InDesign
Use the dock to quit InDesign (does that one count because it's basically the same as #6)
Command+Tab highlight InDesign Icon in application switcher and Command+Q
Command+Tab highlight InDesign icon in application swticher and then Command+H

-- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Print & ePublishing conference sponsors > Marijan Tompa's new site > Tony Harmer's poem lamenting InDesign's inability to create Acrobat form fields > Blog post on Creating Form Fields in InDesign (the Acrobat script) > Tony Harmer's updated poem > Send feedback about your InDesign wishlist items to our Uservoice site > Adobe's official feature request form that Chris Kitchener reads > In discussion with Douglas, we talked about the issue of split columns not splitting > Peter Kahrel's footnotes and columns script > The Certitec winner was from Llandrindod Wells in Powys > The winner of the Quizzler gets her choice of InDesignSecrets webinars > David's article on Mystery Glyphs was in issue #41 of InDesign Magazine > More on Load Selected Glyph in Find > Langston Hughes' poem, "A Dream Deferred"

InDesignSecrets Podcast 150 May 27, 2011

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Our Sesquicentennial Episode; Favorite Resources; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Background Tasks

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Our sesquicentennial episode!
- We talk about 15 of our list of 150 Awesome Links and Resources, including: Bob Bringhurst's InDesign Docs blog, Adobe Master List of Adobe Blogs, InDesign Magazine Tip of the Week archives, Mordy's Fridays with Mordy webinar archive, Pattern Maker plug-in free version, DesignGeek.com, Quark to InDesign conversion guide (PDF), Adobe TV InDesign channel, InDesign Beyond the Basics, Real World InDesign, InDesignUserGroup Twitter list, InDesignSecrets Guide to Special Characters, 10 Tips for Troubleshooting InDesign Files, Dave Dickson's Digital Publishing blog
A new Quizzler! Listen up, magicians: you need to make something disappear.
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Background Tasks

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko is offering 50% off their Frame Reporter ($39) plug-in, an essential utility for getting feedback -- little tags on the page -- on the attributes of image and text frames in your document. Download the demo, click Get License... and enter the coupon code SESQUICENTENNIAL for 50% off until May 31, or 15% after that date. >> In-Tools has a neat plug-in called Style Utilities, that does all sorts of cool tricks with text styles such as styles based on the number of lines in the paragraph, conditional styles, a super-powered Next Style function, and more. It's only $39 and has a free trial. Try it out! – To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and as many correct answers as you can think of. You have until Sunday, June 5 (not May 31 as we said in the podcast, since we were delayed in publishing this) at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! The winner will have the most correct answers, or in caes of a tie, we'll randomly choose the winner. Winner will be announced in the first podcast after June 5, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Sesquicentennial? > 150 Awesome Links and Resources > Bob Levine's post about that Pesky Background Export Issue workaround (read comments for script)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 149 May 14, 2011

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News; Book Cover Layout; Obscurity of the Week: Change Bars; Quizzler Winner

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InDesignSecrets News
- Print & ePublishing Conference update
- Google in, Bing out, for our blog's search engine
Laying out book covers (spine, covers, flaps): tips and scripts
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Change Bars
Quizzler winner and answer!

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. Special offer for InDesignSecrets: get 25% off MathMagic Pro ($199 or more), enter the INDS discount code (details). >> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) keeps improving their so-useful Soxy utility—the latest beta version supports InDesign CS5.5. With Soxy installed, users with multiple versions of InDesign installed can simply double-click INDD files to open them, because Soxy makes sure they open in the correct version of the program. Soxy also supports file/version matching with multiple versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, among others. >> In-Tools is owned by the famous “Harbs” who helps out so many users here on the blog and in our forum. He and his company develop many scripts and plug-ins that are so useful for InDesign users, especially for those who are doing multi-lingual publishing (such as World Tools Pro) and long documents (such as the Power Headers plug-in we mentioned). And in his spare time, Harbs writes an engaging blog on his company site at In-Tools.com/about/blog, check it out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Print & ePublishing Conference in Washington DC, May 23–25, 2011 > Read the Twitterstream about the conference (hashtag: #pepcon) > David loves the number pi so much he wrote a book about it > What do you think of the new blog search form? Tell us in the forum > PageControl plug-in for mixing page sizes pre-CS5 > Dan Rodney's Proper Fraction and Make Book Jacket scripts > Interesting forum discussion about book jacket design and layout > What does ISO stand for?

InDesignSecrets Podcast 148 Apr 29, 2011

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Russell Viers interview; Keyboard Shortcut of the Week; Obscurity of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages; Quizzler!

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Interview with Russell Viers
- On teaching InDesign, the suite, and his favorite tips
- The struggles of regional newspaper publishers (his specialty)
Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Command-Option-7/Control-Alt-7
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select First Range of Same-Size Pages
Quizzler! With a prize worth hundreds of dollars ... listen for details

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> Em Software’s flexible and powerful XTags for InDesign lets you do data-side, tag-driven automated document building. It speaks mainly a greatly enhanced XPress Tags language, but also the InDesign Tagged Text language when needed. Exclusive offer for InDesignSecrets fans: Use the coupon code IDS511 to get 15% off single copies of InData, InCatalog, InCatalog Pro, and Xtags for InDesign. Note this is a time-limited offer, it expires May 31 2011. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2010 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. -- To enter this episode’s Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and at least 3 answers to the Quizzler in the body of the message. You have until Sunday, May 8, at midnight CDT to send in your answer, one per user! We will randomly choose a winner from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after May 8, 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Russell's web site and blog > Atomic News Tools — Russell and Kris Coppetier's InDesign > Web solution for newspapers > Micro News sites from Patch.com > 11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs > The future of the print version of the New York Times > Kelly Vaughn's DocumentGeek blog > Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) > We'd love to see you at the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, on May 23-25 in the Washington DC area

InDesignSecrets Podcast 147 Apr 20, 2011

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Newsbits; InDesign CS5.5; Moving custom settings; Obscurity of the Week: 6-up

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Newsbits!
- New Social Media sharing links on InDesignSecrets.com
- Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June
- AM is talking EPUB at the Chicago InDesign User Group next week
- Print & ePublishing Conference: Larger, and new sessions added
InDesign CS 5.5: Why is it important for Adobe? What's new?
Moving custom InDesign settings between computers
Obscurity of the Week: 6-Up

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. Special offer for InDesignSecrets: get 25% off MathMagic Pro ($199 or more), enter the INDS discount code (details). >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> Em Software’s flexible and powerful XTags for InDesign lets you do do data-side, tag-driven automated document building. It speaks the InDesign Tagged Text language! Exclusive offer for InDesignSecrets fans: Use the coupon code IDS511 to get 15% off single copies of InData, InCatalog, InCatalog Pro, and Xtags for InDesign. Note this is a time-limited offer, it expires May 31 2011. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Forum post about the new Share widget on the blog > Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) > Chicago InDesign User Group page > Please come to the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon); we'd love to meet you! > Adobe's official InDesign CS5.5 New Features page > The frame edge highlighting issue (which CS5.5 will solve for many users) > Our post about the InDesign CS5.5 announcement > AM's comprehensive Acrobat X Essentials video title at Lynda.com > Moving custom settings from CS3 to CS4 blog post > All about preferences and defaults in InDesign from Adobe online help > Marijan"scripting whiz" Tompa's blog and scripts > In-Tools' founder Harbs' excellent blog post about Backsaving in InDesign

InDesignSecrets Podcast 146 Mar 29, 2011

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Newsbits; Live Captions; Liza Daly interview; Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF

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Newsbits!
- Print & ePublishing Conference: New HTML5/CSS3/Flash Tutorial day
- James Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live seminar on April 12
- InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the iPad, new video tutorials from Anne-Marie
- Catch AM's Hardcore InDesign workshop at the HOW Design Conference in June
- Creative Suite 5 Update coming soon, says Adobe
Live Captions: Tips, How-To's, Workarounds
Mike Rankin's interview with Liza Daly, EPUB expert
Obscurity of the Week: Create Tagged PDF

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko's TextExporter is an indispensable InDesign plug-in if ever need to repurpose text content from your InDesign files. Until the end of April, the company is giving away a free license of TextExporter to anyone who donates at least $NZ20 (about $15 US) for either the Japanese or New Zealand earthquake appeals, to any Red Cross society. See this Rorohiko page for instructions and more information. >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for $100 off of the eDocker software. >> In-Tools developed the awesome Reflective Objects plug-in ($59 US), which lets designers specify “align to/away from spine” for objects as well as paragraphs without having to make them anchored objects. If you’ve every had the layout of a left-facing page turn into a mess when it became a right-facing page, this plug-in is for you! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > April 8 is the last day to get $200 off your registration to our 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC area (Twitter hashtag: #pepcon) > New HTML5/CSS3/Flash post-conference tutorial > Fritz's InDesignSecrets Live all-day seminar (use PODCAST146 discount code for $25 off, only 3 available) > AM's blog post about her new Lynda.com InDesign > EPUB titles includes a free sample movie > Enter HAH11 promo code to get $100 off registration to the HOW Design Conference in Chicago, June 22-27. (AM's 3-hour InDesign session is on Friday June 24. Here's the full schedule.) > Liza Daly's company is Threepress Consulting, and their blog is here > More info on the IDPF and the upcoming EPUB 3 specification > Liza mentioned Inkling, publication design specialists in digital textbooks > Adobe's InDesign/Accessibility resource page > Download David's whitepaper, Creating Accessible PDFs with InDesign CS4 (PDF, 292K)

InDesignSecrets Podcast 145 Mar 07, 2011

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Database and spreadsheet publishing; Obscurity of the Week: ATC (Adobe Type Composer)

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Laying out data from a database or spreadsheet
- The built-in Data Merge feature
- InData, InCatalog (emSoftware)
- EasyCatalog (65bit software)
- DataLinker (Teacup software)
- AutoPrice, DesignMerge (Meadows software)
- XMPie's products
Obscurity of the Week: ATC (Adobe Type Composer)

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. >> Em Software’s powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold standard for database publishing. Make your template in InDesign, point it at your data source, and click Start. Sit back and watch as it creates dozens or hundreds of pages entirely hands-off, even including things like graphics and running headers and footers, leaving you with a normal InDesign document. >> Rorohiko's MagnetoGuides is a nifty tool for InDesign CS1–CS5 that lets you "magnetize" guides, which push or pull any ‘snapped’ items along when they are moved. Also check out Soxy, a utility that keeps track of which versions of programs your files were created in, and opens them in the right version. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Check out the web sites of the third-party database publishing products we talked about: InData, InCatalog, EasyCatalog, DataLinker, AutoPrice, DesignMerge, XMPie > Steve Werner wrote a series of three great blog posts here on using InDesign's Data Merge feature: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 > Michael Murphy (The InDesigner) also did a great videocast on Data Merge > It was written back in 1995, but Adobe's "Adobe CID Fonts" PDF white paper on CID and ATC fonts is still good

InDesignSecrets Podcast 144 Feb 27, 2011

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The tech support episode! Mailbag answers; InDesign TechNotes; Nigel French interview; Obscurity of the week: Add items on page as separate objects

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The Tech Support episode! From the mailbag ...
- Select objects under other objects
- Frame colors
- Panel redraw problems
- Making a layer non-printing
- Tips for finding the best tech support
Adobe InDesign Tech Notes
Interview with Nigel French, UK-based designer, grids guru, and InDesign typography expert
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Add items on page as separate objects

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. >> In-Tools is the developer of World Tools Pro, InDesign plug-ins that represent “the most complete solution available for composing multilingual documents including Hebrew, Arabic, Indic languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more.” Additionally, World Tools Pro offers a Composite Font Editor for creating custom composite fonts which automatically uses you choice of the font for each writing script you are using to compose your text. Free demo available for Mac/Windows. >> Rorohiko's StoryParker is a tool for InDesign CS1–CS5 that helps you cope with cluttered pages. Park an object somewhere else (like on the pasteboard) to get it out of the way. Later on, you can easily move the page item back to its exact original position, because parked page items ‘remember’ where they came from – you can ‘unpark’ them, which causes them to fly back to the exact location they had before you parked them. Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS144 to get 20% off StoryParker! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Rebuild InDesign Preferences post > InDesignSecrets forum and the Adobe InDesign forums > Adobe's main portal for InDesign Support & Help > Starter search for recent Adobe Tech Notes on InDesign > Tech Note on SING error and Claudia McCue's post about it > Nigel French's web site, his Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign book, and his titles on Lynda.com > Nigel French is not the same Mr. French from Family Affair that Anne-Marie was thinking of > The script for defining a "true" point-based type size

InDesignSecrets Podcast 143 Feb 17, 2011

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EPUB and Kindle utilities, cross-reference formats, obscurity of the week: Save Count

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Three discoveries about InDesign to eBook conversions
- TextWrangler opens ePubs
- Sigil's housekeeping is a feature-not-a-but
- Kindle Previewer runs KindleGen for your
Cross-references: Roll your own formats!
- Remove the quote marks
- Add a delimiter (partial paragraph)
- Change the wording
Print & ePublishing Conf: New schedule is up!
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Save Count

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software's powerful InData cross-platform plug-in for InDesign is the gold standard for database publishing. Make your template in InDesign, point it at your data source, and click Start. Sit back and watch as it creates dozens or hundreds of pages entirely hands-off, even including things like graphics and running headers and footers, leaving you with a normal InDesign document. Use the coupon code idsecrets211 in their check-out page for 10% off — offer expires at the end of February! >> PrePress Center sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF and wants to add page navigation and zoom controls in the browser, among other goodies. Go to http://www.edocker.com/indesignsecrets-offer/ (or enter the coupon code indes2011) for 20% off of the eDocker software. >> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. Available in the spring. Check it out! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Useful InDesign > eBook utilities: TextWrangler, Notepad++, Sigil, Oxygen, KindleGen and Kindle Previewer > Subscribe to the Lynda.com newsletter to learn when Anne-Marie's new InDesign to EPUB title is live and for special offers > DTP Tools' Cross-References PRO and Blatner Tools > See the new schedule of sessions and seminars for the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference

Errata: TextWrangler lets you open and browse EPUB content files without unzipping them first, but not edit them in place, contrary to what we said in the podcast, sorry! Use Sigil or Oxygen for that.

InDesignSecrets Podcast 142 Feb 02, 2011

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Cool stuff David found at Macworld; Information about new ID2Office plug-in; Quizzler Answers; Great table tip from Diane Burns; Obscurity of the Week: Search in Spotlight

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Macworld 2011: Even stuff Windows users would be interested in!
Interview with Paul Chada from Recosoft
A great table tip from Diane Burns of Transpacific Digital
Winner of last episode's Quizzler: How many places does Load show up in InDesign?
Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Search in Spotlight

-- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft presents the new and exciting ID2Office product, which allows you export InDesign documents to formatted Word or PowerPoint files. Available in the spring. Check it out! >> In-Tools creates InDesign plug-ins mainly for people doing multi-lingual or long document publishing, but many of their products are useful for anyone. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > David went to Macworld 2011 (previously called Macworld Expo) > Makers of ReaddleDocs and PDF Expert > PixelMags > Aquafadas > Terry White's CreativeSuite Podcast > Cool one-handed keyboard: FrogPad > Neat plastic cable ties from ETZY (it's dot-net, not dot-com, as David mistakenly said in the podcast) > Don't forget to register soon for the 2011 Print and ePublishing Conference > Quizzler Winner Marijan Tompa, otherwise known as Tomaxii > Diane Burns owns Transpacific Digital

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